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overflow bit
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1. A flag on some processors indicating an attempt to
calculate a result too large for the destination register to
hold.
2. More generally, an indication of any kind of capacity
overload condition. "Well, the Ada description was
baroque all right, but I could hack it OK until they got to
the exception handling ... that set my overflow bit."